Parable of the Talents: The Sci-Fi Classic Gets a Graphic Novel Adaptation

Octavia Butler is undoubtedly 1 of the top subject fabrication authors of each time, and it should travel arsenic nary astonishment that her enactment continues to beryllium adapted successful different media. Abrams ComicArts is pursuing up its graphic caller adaptations of Parable of the Sower and Kindred with Parable of the Talents.

With Parable of the Talents successful stores now, IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of this graphic novel. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Parable of the Talents is adapted by writer Damian Duffy and artists John Jennings and David Brame, the aforesaid originative squad down the erstwhile Kindred and Parable of the Sower adaptations. Here's Abrams' authoritative statement of the book:

Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 dystopian caller Parable of the Sower painted an alarmingly poignant representation of the twelvemonth 2024, introducing readers to a satellite shaped by biology disasters, economical instability, and societal unrest. Following Lauren Olamina, a preacher’s girl who develops a caller religion, Earthseed, portion travelling the unsafe and dystopian country, Duffy and Jennings bring the sci-fi classical to beingness with a beautifully drawn graphic caller adaptation. Now they are taking connected the sequel to Butler’s stunning novel, The Parable of the Talents, which follows Lauren’s daughter, Asha Vere.

The Parable of the Talents continues Butler’s masterful communicative acceptable against a inheritance of a war-torn continent nether the power of a Christian fundamentalist fascist state. Asha searches for answers astir her ain past portion struggling to reconcile with her mother’s legacy—who was caught betwixt her work to her chosen household and her calling to pb humankind into a amended aboriginal among the stars.

"Octavia E. Butler wrote Parable of the Talents arsenic a informing for the future,” said Duffy successful a statement. “Adapting Parable of the Talents from wrong the aboriginal she warned of has been a surreal and humbling journey. Fortunately, David Brame and John Jennings brought their important creator talents to bear, drafting images to assistance america determination past dystopia, and down the way to hard won hope.”

Parable of the Talents is disposable successful bookstores and comic shops now. You tin bid a transcript connected Amazon.

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